Jhmis sempemivcns. Natural Order: Euphorbiacece — Spurge Family. 
'NGRAVERS on wood are much indebted to this tree for the 
blocks they use to work on, which, after having been sawed 
and made perfectly smooth, receive a slight coating of some 
white substance, usually white lead or Chinese white, to 
render the drawing more conspicuous. The artist’s work is 
done in pencil or India ink. The engraver then follows with 
delicate touch the lines before him, and cuts the picture into the wood 
beneath. The botanical name of this shrub comes from the Latin. 
The word Buxus, box, is itself derived from the Greek puxos, pyx, or 
small box, and sempervirens is from the two Latin words semper. 
always, and virens , present participle of the verb virere , to be green. 
There are several varieties of this genus which are natives of Europe. 
The species known scientifically as the Buxus Nana, or Dwarf Box, 
is much used as a bordering for walks both here and abroad. 
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The full-drawn lip that upward curl’d, 
The eve that seem’d to scorn the world. 
That lip had terror never blench’d; 
Ne’er in that eve had tear-drop quench’d 
The flash severe of swarthy glow, 
That mock’d at pain and knew not woe. 
—Sir Walter Scott. 
A TOR box, nor limes, without their use are made, 
^ Smooth-grain’d and proper for the turner’s trade; 
Which curious hands may carve, and seal 
With ease invade. —Virgil. 
O N his dark face a scorching clime 
And toil, had done the work of time, 
Roughen’d the brow, the temples bared, 
And sable hairs with silver shared, 
Yet left — what age alone could tame — 
The lip of pride, the eye of flame; 
nr HE rolling wheel, that runneth often ’round, 
*- The hardest steel in tract of time doth tear; 
And drizzling drops, that often do redound, 
Firmest flint doth in continuance wear: 
Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear, 
And long entreaty, soften her hard heart, 
That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear 
Or look with pity on my painful smart. 
— Spenser. 
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